Roatan youth are being confronted by an array of mental, medical, and socioeconomic burdens. Our commitment as an organization is to provide accurate, non-denominational health education to the most marginalized regions.
Our organization was founded for and by women and girls. However, women's rights and the upholding of such rights extend to all and therefore, our organization invites all regardless of sexuality, gender, or race.
To empower young people with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions. Importantly, to center youth voices who are our current and future.
Family planning education has been recognized around the world as a means to decrease poverty, allow for economic stability, and promote gender equality. However, in order to best reach youth we must approach them in places and in ways that they already utilize. Research suggests that people are more likely to hear and relate to messages, if they believe the messenger faces the same concerns and pressures. Our model draws on the credibility that young people already have with their peers, empowering youth to disseminate family planning education and resources among themselves.
Our peer health curriculum emphasizes a rights-based approach to reproductive health care promotion and provision, empowering participants to make free, informed and voluntary decisions about their reproductive health and behavior. Youth ambassadors learn public speaking and leadership skills not often afforded to them merely because of their gender. Addressing uncommon reproductive health topics such as gender, sexuality, bullying, and domestic violence, we hope to promote the advancement of otherwise marginalized groups in Hondurans- women, LGBTQI, STD/HIV- infected persons, disabled to better the entire community.
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